Course content for The RAID Course for Working with Challenging Behaviour training

A 3-day course for 6-16 people.
(2-day input on challenging behaviour also available.).....................................................................................................................................................................

Background and aims of The RAID Course:

The RAID® Course is a relentlessly positive approach to working with extreme / challenging behaviour, already attended by over 11,000 professionals.

It gives you a clear, positive philosophy of care. Without it, you lack a sense of direction and simply work in a demoralising 'reactive' way - responding to incidents as they happen. With a positive philosophy, staff can be proactive, taking the initiative and creating positive change. This course aims to give you the following:

• A clear philosophy on extreme / challenging behaviour.

• A philosophy which allows you to intervene positively and effectively to minimise it
at source.

• A clear perspective on what you already do, seeing why some actions you take work,
and others don't.

• You will be better at reinforcing others; you will literally be a more rewarding person.

• You will know why the future is so important, and how to apply that knowledge.

• You will be able to ask constructive questions that nurture and develop people rather
than focusing on 'problems'.

This course is suitable for 'whole teams' working with serious challenging behaviour from adults or children and adolescents: it is important to have everyone 'singing from the same songsheet' when working with extreme behaviour, and that is what The RAID® Course does.

Delegates most often work:

1. In secure facilities for adult psychiatry.
2. With behaviourally disturbed children and adolescents.

• In neurological terms, why is it so much more important to reinforce appropriate
behaviour?

• How to reinforce, what to reinforce, and when to reinforce. Why do some 'reinforcers' fail
to reinforce?

• When a person says they have 'tried everything' with a person, what powerful category
of reinforcers have they often failed to try?

• How some people actually antagonise, when they think they are being reinforcing.

• The 'consistency' myth.

• What is wrong with this question: What should we do when John can't sleep at night and
so comes out of his room and starts smashing things up and assaults staff when they try
to stop him?' What question should we ask?

• Why working on an individual's problems often results in exaggerating these problems,
and what we do instead?

• What are 'Higher-Order' personality characteristics, why are they so important, and how
should we reinforce them?

• Why is this statement probably untrue and how should we capitalise on the real truth of
the situation: 'We find that whenever Sue harms herself she's had an argument with
her boyfriend just before; every time they have an argument, she harms herself.'?

• What are Constructive Criticism and Positive Injunctions - how are they different from
standard criticism and negative injunctions, and why do people respond differently
to them?

• Punishment and Sanctions. Even the most powerful positive approach to extreme
behaviour needs to make sense of sanctions.

• Why proper consideration of the person's future is vital in almost every case.

• The power of feedback and discussion. When each should be used and why it is
important not to get them mixed up.

We can bring this 3-day course to you for an all-inclusive fee of £4,165 plus VAT and up to 16 people can attend. The fee covers all costs: the tutor, tutor's expenses (travel and accommodation), a workbook for every delegate, course evaluation (evaluation document returned to you), registration of all delegates on the APT (WhatWorksWithOffenders) database, individual certificates of attendance sent to each delegate after course attendance, certificate sent to you listing all who attended. You provide the teaching room, any refreshments you want to, and the delegates!

3. Have this approach become institutionalised within your organisation. .....................................................................................................................................................................

We can help you find the most cost effective approach to training up sufficient numbers and getting systems in place so that this approach becomes institutionalised within your organisation. Contact us to discuss: email office@whatworkswithoffenders.co.uk - or call 0116 241 8331. We will be pleased to hear from you.

4. Become a tutor for the course.....................................................................................................................................................................

In order to achieve this you need to become an APT associate. If you are successful in achieving this then you can tutor the course in your own organisation, simultaneously saving your organisation half the course fee. There are also significant other benefits to being an associate. If you are a senior clinician with a real flair for putting things across, then contact us to discuss: email office@whatworkswithoffenders.co.uk - or call 0116 241 8331. We will be pleased to hear from you.

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course.

Feedback for The RAID Course For Working With Challenging Behaviour:

“I really enjoyed this course, absolutely the most impressive and useful training I have received in the 11 years working for the Trust.”

Mustack Surtee, HCSW

"One of the best presented, organised and thought-out courses I have been on. I speak as a course participant but also as a trainer of 20 years experience."

Course Delegate

"I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I found the whole RAID approach like a breath of fresh air."

Course Delegate

"I am sure this was put together just for my needs. I now feel well-equip ed to go back to my work place and make a difference. Congratulations."

Course Delegate

"I would like to thank you for initialising the rebirth of my motivation."